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As the third edition of the International Conference on Functional Clothing and Textiles gets under way in New Delhi today, texfash.com analyses the operating environment. It's a look beyond numbers.

The third edition of the International Conference on Functional Clothing and Textiles that gets under way on 10 February at New Delhi will be a confluence of some of the best research and development minds working to make fashion smart and user-friendly.

Australia's book-end approach across its cotton supply chain that combines actions by producers and retailers is perhaps the best way to rid the global cotton supply chain of exploitation.

As a leading international trade fair with participants from 129 nations, Heimtextil 2023 was a global stage where textile sustainability was holistically mapped — with products and innovations that have shown that scalable and sustainable innovations are not a contradiction in terms. Olaf Schmidt, Vice-President (Textiles & Textile Technologies) at Messe Frankfurt talks to texfash.com

Reports on Bangladesh's ready-made garment industry are mostly about apparel workers, or the country's rising share in apparel exports. There is, however, an underbelly that remains off the radar: the unmitigated pollution of waterbodies. A report from the ground.

Some 3000 chemical and 300 textile industry plants in the EU will have to comply with new legal norms adopted under the EU Industrial Emissions Directive to reduce their environmental impact.

When aesthetics were coming at a price too dear, a techie-packaging pair of friends seized the gap in the market to launch a “reasonably priced” home fashion brand — Vaaree. A year on, it has had one seed round, and in the last few months the 50% month-on-month growth, brings hope for greater things in the future. A texfash.com exclusive.

A rainforest nut that falls off a huge palm tree provides an organic alternative to the ubiquitous button required by the fashion industry as a necessary accessory and at times even an embellishment. Ecuador-based Trafino SA is one of the largest enterprises in the business of exporting these ‘blanks’ made from the tagua nut. texfash.com talks to its Executive President Ignacio Maya to know more. 

The $3 million Dhaka-based Recycle-Raw claims to be the only compliant textile-garment waste-sorting company in Bangladesh and on mission to change the garbage sector into gold.

With concern mounting over microplastics and the search for sustainable options, the woollen swimsuits of the past could be the swimwear of the future.